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Cao Cao Gaoling Mausoleum Museum
4.6
/5
310 reviews
6.1
From SEK 14.00
17.5 km from downtown
Phone 0372-3771666
Address: 河南省安阳市安阳县
Recommended sightseeing time: 2-4 hours
Highlights:
120-yard span shelter & artifacts
See Cao Cao's tomb up-close
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A reminder: children also need tickets! But there are no half-price tickets for children on Ctrip! So, it's pretty useless. If you bring your children and book adult tickets online, you'll have to go to the ticket counter to buy child tickets. Also, some e-tickets need to be exchanged for paper tickets. It feels really low-brow! The entire scenic area doesn't have many artifacts, which is probably due to Cao Cao's frugal nature. You still have to hire a guide, otherwise it's just a waste of time!
I gave it a 5-point rating because it was small, the experience was wonderful, and the staff were very helpful. Cao Cao's Gao Mausoleum was unearthed in Xigaoxue Village, formerly known as Gaojue Village. The village road is quite narrow, widening only at the entrance to the mausoleum. As a child, I read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and admired Zhuge Liang and Guan Yu. As I grew older, my love for Cao Cao deepened. Before my visit, I read the book "Cao Cao Buried Here," which gave me a deeper understanding of Cao Cao. After my visit, I compared the records in the book and searched for historical relics one by one, from the tomb's robbery holes to the traces of the sarcophagus in the side chamber, from the gui-shaped stone plaques to the neck-comforting stones, from the ear-shaped cups to the weapons. Of course, it would have been best if we hadn't found the three human skeletons; I heard they're in a museum in Zhengzhou. Suddenly, I felt a wave of sadness. Cao Cao, a great hero, was criticized and slandered thousands of years after his death, yet his remains were not only not preserved intact, but also not even in his own mausoleum. In the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao said, "I would rather betray the world than let the world betray me." For more than a thousand years, it was the people of the world who let him down.
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